My Commonwealth Hero

                                                     Phil Burrows

Full name: Phil Ross Burrows

Date of birth: 24.04.1980

Birth place: Wellington, NZ

Position: striker

Phil Ross Burrows is a 34 year old hockey player. He has  played in the Olympics and the Commonwealth games. He has won 1 silver and 1 bronze medals in the Commonwealth games. He is New Zealand's top field goal scorer and was named New Zealand’s player of the year. Phil Burrows has completed over 120 international games. 

He has competed in 2 summer Olympics in 2004 in Athens and 2008 in Beijing. 

He has played club hockey in the Netherlands since 2004.

By Mac

How does a space shuttle launch?

How does a space shuttle launch?

For a 4.5 million pound shuttle to lift off from a launching pad to orbit above Earth it must use the following components in order to lift off:

Ø  Two solid rocket boosters (SRB)

Ø  Three main engines of the orbiter

Ø  The external fuel tank (ET)

Those components all have to work together in order for the shuttle to lift off. If one doesn’t work properly the shuttle will go so far up and the spiral back down to Earth.

By Jayden, Amanda, Mac, Castelle, Andre and Jenny 

Fiafia night photos of our performance